Middle/Secondary Science Teacher Institute: Mentor Program

9817580欧文这个项目将汇集来自高等教育，社区，企业和行政人员和教师从华盛顿，DC公立学校的代表计划和准备在中学科学教师领导项目。 通过对教师和学校进行调查，证明了在中学一级进行科学教学改革的迫切需要（即，（第6至8段）。 一个教师领导力项目将计划在华盛顿的公立学校提供教师领导者，他们将协助与科学教师合作，指导他们，协助和指导在职研讨会，并利用课堂变革模型促进变革。 通过汇集所有利益相关者在华盛顿哥伦比亚特区公立学校，包括其他资助的科学计划在小学一级的代表，一个全面的教学战略和科学课程实施的纵向调整将被开发和建立，开始带来重大变化，在华盛顿，DC公立学校的科学计划。

9817580IrvingThis project will bring together representatives from higher education, the community, businesses, and administrators and teachers from the Washington, DC Public Schools to plan and prepare a teacher leadership project in science for middle schools. A critical need has been documented through teacher and school survey of the need to bring about reform in science instruction at the middle school levels (i.e., 6-8). A teacher leadership project will be planned to provide teacher leaders in Washington, DC public schools that will assist in working with science teachers, mentoring them, assisting and directing inservice workshops, and facilitating change using classroom change models.The planning process builds upon preliminary work already completed. By bringing together all stakeholders in the DC publci schools, including representatives of other funded science programs at the elementary level, a comprehensive vertical alignment of teaching strategies and science curriculum implementation will be developed and established to begin to bring about major change in the Washington, DC public Schools' science program.